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Special Interest Groups

Interest Group Ratings

Rating Group: American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

1997 Positions

Issues: Labor
State Office District Name Party Rating
AK U.S. House At-Large Don Young Republican 38%
AL U.S. Senate Sr Richard Shelby Republican 14%
AL U.S. Senate Jr Jeff Sessions III Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 4 Robert Aderholt Republican 0%
AL U.S. House 6 Spencer Bachus Republican 13%
AZ U.S. Senate Sr John McCain III Republican 14%
AZ U.S. Senate Jr Jon Kyl Republican 0%
AZ U.S. House 4 Edward Pastor Democratic 100%
CA U.S. Senate Sr Dianne Feinstein Democratic 57%
CA U.S. Senate Jr Barbara Boxer Democratic 86%
CA U.S. House 2 Wally Herger, Jr. Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 6 Lynn Woolsey Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 7 George Miller Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 8 Nancy Pelosi Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 13 Pete Stark Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 14 Anna Eshoo Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 16 Zoe Lofgren Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 17 Sam Farr Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 24 Elton Gallegly Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 25 Buck McKeon Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 26 David Dreier Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 27 Brad Sherman Democratic 88%
CA U.S. House 28 Howard Berman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 30 Henry Waxman Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 31 Xavier Becerra Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 34 Lucille Roybal-Allard Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 35 Maxine Waters Democratic 100%
CA U.S. House 40 Ed Royce Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 41 Jerry Lewis Republican 38%
CA U.S. House 44 Ken Calvert Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 46 Dana Rohrabacher Republican 0%
CA U.S. House 47 Loretta Sanchez Democratic 75%
CA U.S. House 50 Brian Bilbray Republican 13%
CA U.S. House 51 Bob Filner Democratic 100%
CO U.S. House 1 Diana DeGette Democratic 100%
CO State Board of Education 4 Robert Schaffer Republican 0%
CT U.S. Senate Sr Joe Lieberman Independent Democrat 29%
CT U.S. House 3 Rosa DeLauro Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 3 Corrine Brown Democratic 100%
FL U.S. House 6 Cliff Stearns Republican 13%
FL U.S. House 7 John Mica Republican 0%
FL U.S. House 10 Bill Young Republican 38%
FL U.S. House 18 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen Republican 38%
FL U.S. House 23 Alcee Hastings, Sr. Democratic 100%
FL Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Charles Canady 13%
GA U.S. Senate Sr Saxby Chambliss Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 1 Jack Kingston Republican 0%
GA U.S. House 2 Sanford Bishop, Jr. Democratic 88%
GA U.S. House 5 John Lewis Democratic 100%
GA Governor Nathan Deal Republican 100%
HI U.S. Senate Sr Daniel Inouye Democratic 83%
HI U.S. Senate Jr Daniel Akaka, Sr. Democratic 71%
HI Governor Neil Abercrombie Democratic 100%
IA U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Grassley Republican 0%
IA U.S. Senate Jr Tom Harkin Democratic 71%
IA U.S. House 3 Leonard Boswell Democratic 75%
IA U.S. House 4 Tom Latham Republican 0%
ID U.S. Senate Sr Mike Crapo Republican 13%
IL U.S. Senate Sr Dick Durbin Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 1 Bobby Rush Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 2 Jesse Jackson, Jr. Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 4 Luis Gutierrez Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 7 Danny Davis Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 12 Jerry Costello Democratic 100%
IL U.S. House 16 Don Manzullo Republican 0%
IL U.S. House 19 John Shimkus Republican 38%
IN U.S. Senate Sr Dick Lugar Republican 0%
IN U.S. House 1 Pete Visclosky Democratic 88%
IN U.S. House 5 Dan Burton Republican 13%
KS U.S. Senate Sr Pat Roberts Republican 0%
KS U.S. Senate Jr Jerry Moran Republican 25%
KS Governor Sam Brownback Republican 0%
KY U.S. Senate Sr Mitch McConnell Republican 0%
KY U.S. House 1 Ed Whitfield Republican 13%
KY U.S. House 5 Hal Rogers Republican 0%
LA U.S. Senate Sr Mary Landrieu Democratic 29%
MA U.S. Senate Sr John Kerry Democratic 71%
MA U.S. House 1 John Olver Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 2 Richard Neal Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 3 Jim McGovern Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 4 Barney Frank Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 6 John Tierney Democratic 100%
MA U.S. House 7 Ed Markey Democratic 100%
MD U.S. Senate Sr Barbara Mikulski Democratic 86%
MD U.S. Senate Jr Ben Cardin Democratic 88%
MD U.S. House 5 Steny Hoyer Democratic 100%
MD U.S. House 6 Roscoe Bartlett Republican 0%
MD U.S. House 7 Elijah Cummings Democratic 100%
ME U.S. Senate Sr Olympia Snowe Republican 43%
ME U.S. Senate Jr Susan Collins Republican 14%
MI U.S. Senate Sr Carl Levin Democratic 86%
MI U.S. Senate Jr Debbie Stabenow Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 4 Dave Camp Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 5 Dale Kildee Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 6 Fred Upton Republican 13%
MI U.S. House 12 Sandy Levin Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 14 John Conyers, Jr. Democratic 100%
MI U.S. House 15 John Dingell Democratic 100%
MN U.S. House 7 Collin Peterson Democratic/Farmer/Labor 88%
MO U.S. Senate Jr Roy Blunt Republican 25%
MO U.S. House 8 Jo Ann Emerson Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Sr Thad Cochran Republican 0%
MS U.S. Senate Jr Roger Wicker Republican 0%
MS U.S. House 2 Bennie Thompson Democratic 100%
MT U.S. Senate Sr Max Baucus Democratic 29%
NA Vice President Joe Biden, Jr. Democratic 57%
NA U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood Republican 38%
NC U.S. Senate Sr Richard Burr Republican 13%
NC U.S. House 3 Walter Jones, Jr. Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 4 David Price Democratic 100%
NC U.S. House 6 Howard Coble Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 7 Mike McIntyre Democratic 50%
NC U.S. House 9 Sue Myrick Republican 0%
NC U.S. House 12 Mel Watt Democratic 100%
ND U.S. Senate Sr Kent Conrad Democratic-NPL 57%
NH U.S. House 2 Charlie Bass Republican 0%
NJ U.S. Senate Sr Frank Lautenberg Democratic 71%
NJ U.S. Senate Jr Bob Menendez Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 1 Rob Andrews Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 2 Frank LoBiondo Republican 63%
NJ U.S. House 4 Chris Smith Republican 75%
NJ U.S. House 6 Frank Pallone, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 8 Bill Pascrell, Jr. Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 9 Steve Rothman Democratic 100%
NJ U.S. House 11 Rodney Frelinghuysen Republican 25%
NM U.S. Senate Sr Jeff Bingaman Democratic 57%
NV U.S. Senate Sr Harry Reid Democratic 86%
NY U.S. Senate Sr Chuck Schumer Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 3 Pete King Republican 75%
NY U.S. House 4 Carolyn McCarthy Democratic 86%
NY U.S. House 5 Gary Ackerman Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 8 Jerry Nadler Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 10 Ed Towns Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 12 Nydia Velázquez Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 14 Carolyn Maloney Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 15 Charlie Rangel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 16 José Serrano Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 17 Eliot Engel Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 18 Nita Lowey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 22 Maurice Hinchey Democratic 100%
NY U.S. House 28 Louise Slaughter Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Sr Sherrod Brown Democratic 100%
OH U.S. Senate Jr Rob Portman Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 1 Steve Chabot Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 8 John Boehner Republican 0%
OH U.S. House 9 Marcy Kaptur Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 10 Dennis Kucinich Democratic 100%
OH U.S. House 14 Steve LaTourette Republican 50%
OH Governor John Kasich Republican 0%
OH State Senate 28 Thomas Sawyer Democratic 100%
OH Attorney General Michael DeWine Republican 0%
OK U.S. Senate Sr Jim Inhofe Republican 14%
OK U.S. Senate Jr Thomas Coburn Republican 0%
OK U.S. House 3 Frank Lucas Republican 0%
OR U.S. Senate Sr Ron Wyden Democratic 71%
OR U.S. House 3 Earl Blumenauer Democratic 100%
OR U.S. House 4 Peter DeFazio Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 2 Chaka Fattah, Sr. Democratic 100%
PA U.S. House 14 Mike Doyle, Jr. Democratic 88%
PA U.S. House 16 Joe Pitts Republican 0%
PA U.S. House 17 Thomas Holden Democratic 86%
RI U.S. Senate Sr Jack Reed Democratic 100%
SC U.S. Senate Sr Lindsey Graham Republican 0%
SC U.S. House 6 Jim Clyburn Democratic 100%
SD U.S. Senate Sr Timothy Johnson Democratic 71%
SD U.S. Senate Jr John Thune Republican 13%
TN U.S. House 2 John Duncan, Jr. Republican 0%
TX U.S. Senate Sr Kay Hutchison Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 3 Sam Johnson Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 4 Ralph Hall Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 6 Joe Barton Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 8 Kevin Brady Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 12 Kay Granger Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 13 Mac Thornberry Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 14 Ron Paul Republican 25%
TX U.S. House 15 Rubén Hinojosa-Flores, Sr. Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 16 Silvestre Reyes Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 18 Sheila Jackson Lee Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 21 Lamar Smith Republican 0%
TX U.S. House 25 Lloyd Doggett Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 29 Gene Green Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 30 Eddie Johnson Democratic 100%
TX U.S. House 32 Pete Sessions Republican 0%
UT U.S. Senate Sr Orrin Hatch Republican 0%
VA U.S. House 3 Bobby Scott Democratic 100%
VA U.S. House 6 Bob Goodlatte Republican 13%
VA U.S. House 8 Jim Moran, Jr. Democratic 88%
VA U.S. House 10 Frank Wolf Republican 25%
VT U.S. Senate Sr Patrick Leahy Democratic 67%
VT U.S. Senate Jr Bernie Sanders Independent 100%
WA U.S. Senate Sr Patty Murray Democratic 71%
WA U.S. House 4 Richard Hastings Republican 0%
WA U.S. House 6 Norm Dicks Democratic 88%
WA U.S. House 7 Jim McDermott Democratic 100%
WA U.S. House 9 Adam Smith Democratic 88%
WI U.S. Senate Sr Herb Kohl Democratic 29%
WI U.S. House 3 Ron Kind Democratic 100%
WI U.S. House 5 Jim Sensenbrenner, Jr. Republican 13%
WI U.S. House 6 Tom Petri Republican 38%
WI Mayor At-Large Tom Barrett Democratic 100%
WV U.S. Senate Sr Jay Rockefeller IV Democratic 71%
WV U.S. House 3 Nick Rahall II Democratic 100%
WY U.S. Senate Sr Mike Enzi Republican 14%
Edmond Spencer Abraham 14%
Wayne Allard 0%
Thomas Allen 100%
William Archer 0%
Richard Armey 0%
John Ashcroft 0%
Richard Hugh Baker 0%
John Baldacci 100%
Cass Ballenger 0%
James Barcia 88%
Robert Barr, Jr. 0%
William Barrett 25%
Herbert Bateman 25%
Bob Bennett 0%
Kenneth Bentsen, Jr. 88%
Douglas Bereuter 29%
Marion Berry 100%
Michael Bilirakis 14%
Rod Blagojevich 100%
Thomas Bliley, Jr. 0%
Sherwood Boehlert 63%
Kit Bond 0%
Henry Bonilla 0%
David Edward Bonior 100%
Robert Borski, Jr. 100%
Rick Boucher 100%
Allen Boyd, Jr. 75%
John Breaux 14%
George Brown, Jr. 100%
Richard Bryan 29%
Ed Bryant 0%
Jim Bunning 0%
Conrad Burns 14%
Steve Buyer 0%
Robert Byrd 100%
Herbert Callahan 14%
Ben Campbell 29%
Thomas Campbell 38%
Chris Cannon 13%
Julia Carson 100%
Mike Castle 38%
John Chafee 14%
Helen Chenoweth 0%
William Clay, Sr. 100%
Eva Clayton 100%
Joseph Maxwell Cleland 57%
Robert Clement 75%
Mac Collins 13%
Larry Combest 0%
Gary Condit 75%
Merrill Cook 0%
John Cooksey 0%
Paul Coverdell 29%
Christopher Cox 0%
William Coyne 100%
Larry Craig 0%
Robert Cramer 75%
Philip Crane 0%
Barbara Cubin 0%
Randall Cunningham 0%
Patsy Ann Danner 75%
Thomas Daschle 71%
James Davis 88%
Thomas Davis III 38%
Bill Delahunt 100%
Thomas DeLay 0%
Peter Deutsch 100%
Lincoln Diaz-Balart 63%
Jay Dickey 0%
Julian Dixon 100%
Chris Dodd 57%
Pete Domenici, Jr. 0%
Calvin Dooley 50%
John Doolittle 0%
Byron Dorgan 86%
Jennifer Dunn 0%
Chet Edwards 88%
Vern Ehlers 13%
Bob Ehrlich, Jr. 0%
Philip English 75%
Bob Etheridge 88%
Lane Evans 100%
Terry Everett 14%
Thomas Ewing 25%
Russ Feingold 86%
Mark Foley 25%
Michael Patrick Forbes 50%
Harold Ford, Jr. 100%
Tillie Fowler 0%
Robert Franks 38%
William Frist 0%
Jonas Frost III 100%
John Ganske 13%
Sam Gejdenson 100%
George Gekas 25%
Richard Andrew Gephardt 100%
Jim Gibbons 0%
Wayne Gilchrest 0%
Paul Gillmor 13%
Benjamin Gilman 75%
Newt Gingrich 0%
Virgil Goode, Jr. 13%
William Goodling 13%
Bart Gordon 75%
Slade Gorton 0%
Porter Goss 0%
Daniel Graham 29%
William Phillip Gramm 14%
Rodney Grams 14%
James Greenwood 13%
Judd Gregg 0%
Gilbert Gutknecht 0%
Charles Hagel 0%
Tony Hall 88%
James Hansen 0%
J. Dennis Hastert 0%
J.D. Hayworth, Jr. 0%
Joel Hefley 0%
Jesse Helms 14%
Rick Hill 13%
Van Hilleary 0%
Earl Hilliard, Jr. 100%
David Lee Hobson 13%
Pete Hoekstra 0%
Ernest Hollings 83%
Darlene Hooley 88%
Stephen Horn 50%
John Nathan Hostettler 0%
Amory Houghton, Jr. 50%
Kenny Hulshof 13%
Duncan Hunter 0%
William Hutchinson 25%
Y. Tim Hutchinson 0%
Henry Hyde 25%
Ernest Istook, Jr. 0%
William Jefferson 100%
James Merrill Jeffords 0%
William Lewis Jenkins 13%
Christopher John 38%
Nancy Johnson 50%
Paul Kanjorski 100%
Sue Kelly 38%
Edward Kennedy, Sr. 100%
Patrick Kennedy 100%
Bob Kerrey 43%
Carolyn Kilpatrick 100%
Gerald Kleczka 88%
Ronald Klink 100%
Joseph Knollenberg 13%
James Kolbe 0%
John LaFalce 100%
Nicholas Lampson 88%
Tom Lantos 100%
Stephen Largent 0%
Rick Lazio 50%
James Leach 50%
Ron Lewis 0%
John Linder 0%
William Lipinski 75%
Robert Livingston 25%
Trent Lott, Sr. 0%
William Luther 88%
Connie Mack 0%
James Maloney 75%
Matthew Martinez 88%
Frank Mascara 100%
Robert Matsui 100%
Karen McCarthy 88%
Bill McCollum 0%
James McCrery III 0%
John McHugh 50%
Scott McInnis 0%
David McIntosh 14%
Cynthia Ann McKinney 100%
Michael McNulty 100%
Martin Meehan 100%
Carrie Meek 100%
Jack Metcalf 63%
Juanita Millender-McDonald 100%
Dan Miller 25%
David Minge 75%
Patsy Takemoto Mink 100%
John Moakley 100%
Alan Mollohan 100%
Constance Morella 38%
Daniel Patrick Moynihan 29%
Frank Murkowski 0%
Jack Murtha 100%
George Nethercutt, Jr. 13%
Robert William Ney 38%
Don Nickles 0%
Anne Northup 0%
Charles Norwood, Jr. 0%
James Nussle 0%
Jim Oberstar 100%
Dave Obey 100%
Solomon Ortiz, Sr. 100%
Major Owens 100%
Michael Oxley 13%
Ronald Packard 0%
Donald Payne 100%
Edward Pease 13%
John Peterson 0%
Charles Pickering, Jr. 0%
Owen Pickett 75%
Richard Pombo 0%
Earl Pomeroy 88%
John Edward Porter 29%
Deborah Pryce 0%
Jack Quinn 63%
George Radanovich 0%
James Ramstad 13%
Ralph Regula 38%
Bob Riley 0%
Lynn Nancy Rivers 100%
Charles Robb 43%
Ciro Rodriguez 100%
Timothy Roemer 75%
James Rogan 0%
William Roth, Jr. 0%
Marge Roukema 50%
Jim Ryun 0%
Martin Olav Sabo 100%
Matthew Salmon 13%
Max Sandlin, Jr. 88%
Mark Sanford, Jr. 0%
Rick Santorum 14%
Paul Sarbanes 100%
H. James Saxton 38%
Joe Scarborough 0%
John Shadegg 0%
E. Clay Shaw, Jr. 25%
Christopher Shays 38%
E.G. Shuster 13%
Norman Sisisky 75%
Joseph Skeen 13%
Ike Skelton 75%
Gordon Smith 0%
Nick Smith 0%
Bob Smith 14%
Vic Snyder 88%
Mark Souder 0%
Arlen Specter 57%
Floyd Spence 0%
John Spratt, Jr. 88%
Charles Stenholm 29%
Ted Stevens 14%
Ted Strickland 100%
Robert Stump 0%
Bart Stupak 100%
John Sununu 0%
James Talent 0%
John Tanner 63%
Ellen Tauscher 88%
William Tauzin 0%
Charles Taylor 0%
Gene Taylor 13%
Craig Thomas 0%
William Thomas 13%
Fred Thompson 0%
Karen Thurman 88%
Strom Thurmond 14%
Todd Tiahrt 13%
Robert Torricelli 86%
James Traficant, Jr. 75%
James Turner 75%
Bruce Vento 100%
James Walsh 38%
Zach Wamp 0%
John Warner 0%
Wesley Watkins 0%
Julius Caesar Watts, Jr. 0%
David Weldon 0%
W. Curtis Weldon 50%
Gerald Weller 50%
Paul Wellstone 100%
Robert Wexler 100%
Robert Weygand 100%
Robert Wise, Jr. 100%
Albert Wynn 100%

How to Interpret these Evaluations

Keep in mind that ratings done by special interest groups often do not represent a non-partisan stance. In addition, some groups select votes that tend to favor members of one political party over another, rather than choosing votes based solely on issues concerns. Nevertheless, they can be invaluable in showing where an incumbent has stood on a series of votes in the past one or two years, especially when ratings by groups on all sides of an issue are compared. Website links, if available, and descriptions of the organizations offering performance evaluations are accessible by clicking on the name of the group.

Most performance evaluations are displayed in a percentage format. However, some organizations present their ratings in the form of a letter grade or endorsement based on voting records, interviews, survey results and/or sources of campaign funding. For consistency and ease in understanding, Project Vote Smart converts all scores into a percentage when possible. Please visit the group's website or call 1-888-VOTESMART for more specific information.

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